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| Neat Find By Dan B. Photo submitted by Dan B. |
First, here is a mystery item. The find is by Dan B. who thinks it might be a hair pin. What do you think?
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About the U. S. Customs button that I asked about yesterday, here is what Michael said.
I looked up the customs button and from the information I found its mid 40s early 50s mine is intact which I thought wasn't the case until I found it online. Looks like it attaches over an existing button.
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Most detectorists approach sites pretty much the same. They do pretty much the same thing and hit the same areas.
I told before about how I was traveling once and stopped at a picnic area on a bay. I went into the water and could tell that the area had been hunted heavily.
There were two posts (maybe from old docks) in the water right in front of the picnic area. The area between the old posts and into the picnic area was cleaned out. That rectangular area was very clean. I decided to check outside of the rectangular area defined by the posts and shoreline, and quickly found that it had not been hunted well at all. Yes it was junky, but in about a half hour I picked up three gold rings just outside the cleaned out area.
Detectorists tend to hit the same spots over and over. They might be the places where the majority of targets are lost, but the targets get cleaned out so sometimes it is better to go to a place where fewer targets are lost but where more targets remain.
I was talking about a country path that I detected not long ago. The main part of the path had been detected multiple times so that part of the path was pretty clean, so I went over to the side of the path on a slope and immediately started finding older coins.
My point is simple. Sometimes all you have to do is do something a little different than what everybody else is doing.
If you visit an old home site. You can look at it and tell where most detectorists would detect first. They'll go for the obvious and easy spots. Most won't bother to hit the more difficult spots. All you have to do to find virgin ground is work through bushes or weeds - maybe do a little clearing. Move rocks or logs. Work your detector into tight spots.
The same thing goes for beaches. There are places everybody will hit, and there are places that most everybody will miss. You might have to use a little more effort and use your head, but those kinds of spots are still out there.
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Private companies are moving closer and closer to conducting mining operations in outer space despite the two rockets that blew up recently.
Did you know that it has been estimated that a one kilometer diameter asteroid could contain about 7,500 tons of platinum, worth more than $150 billion?
Here is an article about that.
http://www.astronomysource.com/tag/platinum-from-asteroids/
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Here is an interesting find estimated by people that know a lot about such things to be about 1000 years old.
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On the Treasure Coast we have West winds. A front is coming through. We'll have cooler temperatures for a couple of days, but around a three foot surf for a week or two.
I have more Treasure Coast finds to post.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@Comcast.net
